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Igor Baryshnikov
Russian engineer and social activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Igor Lazarevich Baryshnikov (Russian: Игорь Лазаревич Барышников; born January 20, 1959) is a Russian engineer,[1] a social activist from the Kaliningrad Oblast,[2][3] who in 2023 was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison under "dissemination of knowingly false information about the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation", despite a serious illness.[4][5]
June 22, 2023 Judge Olga Balandina handed down the verdict.[6][7]
On August 7, 2023, Igor Baryshnikov's mother, Yevgenia Veniaminovna (1926[8][9] — 2023), died in Sovetsk, whose condition worsened sharply after her son was arrested.[4] She was a victim of the Holocaust, as a child she was able to escape from the Nazis in Polotsk, and all her relatives were killed. Igor was not allowed to attend the funeral.
Memorial recognized Igor Baryshnikov as a political prisoner.[10]
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